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Caroline Grannan was an editor at the San Jose Mercury News for 12 years. Currently she contributes to a number of Internet sites dealing with education and schools. She is a San Francisco public school parent, advocate, and volunteer and has followed education politics locally and nationwide.

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The last myth: Things were better in the good old days

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Myth No. 10: The SFUSD assignment process was easier and more parent-friendly in the past. No way!...
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Debunking more myths, starting with *why not make all the schools good?*

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Myth No. 7: The school district could fix all this by just making all the schools good! It’s a shame...
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Another SFUSD assignment myth: Middle-class families are out in the cold

Monday, November 9th, 2009

I'm switching to posting some -- maybe the rest -- of the myths individually. Myth No. 6: It’s...
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Myths about the SFUSD application process -- a message of hope

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 · 4 comments

I agree with Board of Education member Rachel Norton’s sheepish confession: I love the annual School...
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Don't miss the SFUSD enrollment fair this Saturday

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

The annual San Francisco Unified School District Enrollment Fair is this Saturday, Nov. 7, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., at...
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San Francisco privatization funder laments insufficient standardized testing

Thursday, October 29th, 2009 · 1 comment

A note of distress in a press release from the New Schools Venture Fund: "Today, in many schools,...
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Don't let city workers bump vital school secretaries from their jobs

Thursday, October 29th, 2009 · 5 comments

Alarm is spreading through San Francisco school communities about the likelihood that the secretaries who are...
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Congratulations, Ceara!

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 · 1 comment

Others have already posted about Mississippi high school senior Ceara Sturgis, whose school refused to print her photo in the yearbook because the...
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Revolution Foods clients get bit by higher costs of fresher food

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 · 10 comments

As a longtime veteran of school food advocacy, I know that the overwhelming barrier to improving cafeteria meals is...
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Jerry Brown's Oakland charter schools: worth scrutiny in the governor's race

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

With former Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown in the running for governor (he was previously state governor in the...
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